Haryana Government has constituted State Steering Committee and State level coordination committee for organising the 21st National Youth Festival to be held at Rohtak from January 12 to 16.
The 12-member State Steering Committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij, to monitor, supervise and decide various activities to be taken up during the festival, said a spokesman of Sports and Youth Affairs Department.
Cooperation Minister, Manish Grover, would be the vice-chairman of the committee, which would include as members the Chief Secretary, Administrative Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs Department, Director General of Police, Director, Sports and Youth Affairs Department, Commissioner Rohtak Division, Deputy Commissioner Rohtak, Inspector General of Police , Rohtak Range among others.
About 7,500 participants and 15,000 volunteers would participate in the youth festival. Members of Parliament (MPS) and Members of legislative Assembly of the state will also participate in the event. Also, MPs below 45 years of age from all over the country has been invited for the youth festival.
A ‘Gram Darshan Programme’ would be organised for the participants. As many as 50 villages of the State have been identified where the participants would visit to know about their living style and culture.
The spokesperson said that a 28-member State level Coordination Committee has also been constituted under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary implement various decisions of the State Advisory Committee and the State Steering Committee, and to allocate work and assign duties for discharging various functions or conducting events, besides approving specific activities to be taken up during the National Youth Festival.
Administrative Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs Department, KK Khandelwal would be the Vice-chairman of the committee. It would include as members the Administrative Secretaries of Health, Transport, Public Works (Building and Roads), Home, Finance, Public Health Engineering, Higher Education, Information, Public Relations and languages, Cultural Affairs, Urban local Bodies Departments among others.